Wow. The computer gets vicious on 150cc Mario Kart. I was cruising along in first place for three races in a row. This was the first time I had a real shot at winning a 150cc set. In the fourth race, the computer hits me with something like 3-4 homing turtle shells in succession. It proceeds to blast me the entire rest of the race. One guy basically squats in front of me picking up the item blocks while driving just erratically enough that I can't manage to get a boost off of him. The computer beats me so mercilessly that I come in 8th. From first in the first three races to eighth. Wow. I still won the circuit, though. 5 to go until I have beaten all of the circuits on 150cc.

A lot of the trophies I can get now are due to practice instead of any talent. Practicing laps on NFS: Shift over and over just to shed a second's worth of time made me better at all racing games. Working on the 10,000 kills in Resistance 2 multiplayer made me better at FPSs. It's just time and patience and practice. That's why my list keeps getting longer - the better I get, the more trophies become possible.

You want to see talent, find someone who has the platinum for the original Prototype. Or beating Killzone 2 on elite difficulty. Those are trophies I neither have nor expect to get.

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according to PS3trophies.org, the hardest game to platinum is wipeout. Don't remember why, just that it was rated the hardest to plat.

I got a couple trophies in Sonic's Genesis Collection today. Was planning on going for the platinum until I saw the Mean Bean Machine one: "Beat the game." At my best I could maybe get halfway through: today I got beat by the very first guy.

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You just have to keep playing it - sometimes the guys do something crazy like drop 5 stones on every row and kill you and other times you can cream them. You can't die, you just have to play the previous guy every once in awhile IIRC. So to beat it, all you have to do is sit there and hammer away at it.

You think you have it tough - I did it in the middle of summer, closed room, 80 some degree heat, sitting with my shirt off and a pair of old Sony headphones on. I think it took me 4 or 5 hours. Really, once you get the hang of it, it's not that hard. Getting the scores on the Vectorman games was the worse for me.

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lol, you guys. I beat it in no time. All those years grinding away at Tetris obviously paid off.... oh, who am I kidding. I entered the code to start at Robotniks level, and then filled up both sides to the top with beans so that all that was left was one narrow column. After that, all it took was one match to start a chain reaction that practically filled robotniks screen up. It didnt take me more than 5 or 6 tries, and that's without any real practice.

A lot of the trophies I can get now are due to practice instead of any talent. Practicing laps on NFS: Shift over and over just to shed a second's worth of time made me better at all racing games. Working on the 10,000 kills in Resistance 2 multiplayer made me better at FPSs. It's just time and patience and practice. That's why my list keeps getting longer - the better I get, the more trophies become possible.

You want to see talent, find someone who has the platinum for the original Prototype. Or beating Killzone 2 on elite difficulty. Those are trophies I neither have nor expect to get.

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according to PS3trophies.org, the hardest game to platinum is wipeout. Don't remember why, just that it was rated the hardest to plat.

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One of the trophies in Wipeout requires beating a time that demands absolute perfection. Even the tiniest inefficiency and you'll miss it, often by a hundredth of a second.

Wow. The computer gets vicious on 150cc Mario Kart. I was cruising along in first place for three races in a row. This was the first time I had a real shot at winning a 150cc set. In the fourth race, the computer hits me with something like 3-4 homing turtle shells in succession. It proceeds to blast me the entire rest of the race. One guy basically squats in front of me picking up the item blocks while driving just erratically enough that I can't manage to get a boost off of him. The computer beats me so mercilessly that I come in 8th. From first in the first three races to eighth. Wow. I still won the circuit, though. 5 to go until I have beaten all of the circuits on 150cc.

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You think that's a bitch? Try getting a triple-star ranking (or whatever) in 150cc cups. Such a chore.

I refuse to believe that ANY Mario Kart can be more infuriating than the original.

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This is by far the truest statement ever. When I was a kid trying to beat 150cc, I got so pissed at the final cup that I kicked a dresser drawer in. I was a rage baby. I'm not sure if it's just that I learned not to really give a fuck, or if things aren't as difficult as they used to be. Maybe it's a combination of the 2?

I refuse to believe that ANY Mario Kart can be more infuriating than the original.

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This is by far the truest statement ever. When I was a kid trying to beat 150cc, I got so pissed at the final cup that I kicked a dresser drawer in. I was a rage baby. I'm not sure if it's just that I learned not to really give a fuck, or if things aren't as difficult as they used to be. Maybe it's a combination of the 2?

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Probably. But yeah I'm pretty sure I've never gotten more pissed at any game. Ever. At least I managed to beat that one though. The SNES still remains as the one system with the most games I never conquered.

Son of a bitch... Was going to start up Chrono Trigger again but it seems something's wrong with it. When I can get the DS to recognize there's a game loaded up, once I make an area transition or two both screens just go black. Tried two other games and they both work fine, so leads me back to CT being the issue.

I played Punch-Out for the Wii just recently, that thing is damn difficult. Managed to beat it to get to the championship but then I had to beat an updated version of everyone again, and that was too much for me.

I played Punch-Out for the Wii just recently, that thing is damn difficult. Managed to beat it to get to the championship but then I had to beat an updated version of everyone again, and that was too much for me.

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Great game. You should persevere through Title Defense mode. That's where it gets really interesting. Don't worry about losing to Headgear Glass Joe: it happens to everybody.

What's the realistic amount of time to set up and play a game of that? One of my coworkers mentioned he recently picked it up and that it was awesome. I take that with a grain of salt because he moves from one "awesome" game to another faster than most anybody I know. However I'm looking for fantasy based games that scratch my D&D itch that don't require nearly as much preparation and planning time, or as much time to complete a satisfying gaming session.

What's the realistic amount of time to set up and play a game of that? One of my coworkers mentioned he recently picked it up and that it was awesome. I take that with a grain of salt because he moves from one "awesome" game to another faster than most anybody I know. However I'm looking for fantasy based games that scratch my D&D itch that don't require nearly as much preparation and planning time, or as much time to complete a satisfying gaming session.

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Our first time playing took about an hour to actually play, game advertises 30 minutes on the box. I can't see it going that fast but 45 minutes seems realistic for vets.

First time setup was like 25 minutes unwrapping the cards and placing them in the box like you see. They're all separated properly when you start and you only mix cards together as you play. So the important piece is post-game when you separate the cards back out and put them back in the box. Honestly not that bad.

Spent the evening playing Super Meat Boy on steam. My fingers hurt, lol. I got pretty pissed too. I scored an A+ on each level in the first chapter, the Forest, both light and dark. I got all the warp zones opened up and have 14/20 bandages. I even got that bizarre @!#%^@# level, but holy balls I can't get past the gaping chasm. Not sure I want to go back to it. I feel like I NEED to 100% this game, since I 100%ed the original meatboy, but I lost the saved game a long time ago. But some of the achievements in this game are BRUTAL. Beating an entire chapter without dying? The dark world version? I can't even imagine that being possible.

What's the realistic amount of time to set up and play a game of that? One of my coworkers mentioned he recently picked it up and that it was awesome. I take that with a grain of salt because he moves from one "awesome" game to another faster than most anybody I know. However I'm looking for fantasy based games that scratch my D&D itch that don't require nearly as much preparation and planning time, or as much time to complete a satisfying gaming session.

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Our first time playing took about an hour to actually play, game advertises 30 minutes on the box. I can't see it going that fast but 45 minutes seems realistic for vets.

First time setup was like 25 minutes unwrapping the cards and placing them in the box like you see. They're all separated properly when you start and you only mix cards together as you play. So the important piece is post-game when you separate the cards back out and put them back in the box. Honestly not that bad.

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30 minutes is realistic once you get really experienced, or so my Dominion-loving friends would probably argue. Thing is, it's an older game and has quite the fan base so experience players tend to be VERY experience players, and could probably finish a game in 15-20 minutes (for a two, maybe three-player) not including set up easily (not kidding).

I've only played the game once, myself. A two player. I won by a fair amount, actually.

I've played a couple Dominion inspired games, however. Star Trek: Deck Building Game and Legendary (a Marvel Comics-themed deck building game), the latter I preferred of the three but that's based on one play for each. Personally wouldn't buy any of them but I'd play them most of the time if someone tabled them (except the Star Trek one). Fun stuff (except the Star Trek one).

Spent the evening playing Super Meat Boy on steam. My fingers hurt, lol. I got pretty pissed too. I scored an A+ on each level in the first chapter, the Forest, both light and dark. I got all the warp zones opened up and have 14/20 bandages. I even got that bizarre @!#%^@# level, but holy balls I can't get past the gaping chasm. Not sure I want to go back to it. I feel like I NEED to 100% this game, since I 100%ed the original meatboy, but I lost the saved game a long time ago. But some of the achievements in this game are BRUTAL. Beating an entire chapter without dying? The dark world version? I can't even imagine that being possible.

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Yeah I didn't bother with those, regular old 100% completion was enough for me

Yeah I'll probably get the chance to play Dominion soon. The coworker who bought it just bought a house and will probably be having a housewarming party by the end of the year or early next year and he lives by a couple mutual friends now so getting four of us together for a game would be a snap. I don't plan on buying it, as I'm getting Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition for Christmas and we'll see if that turns out to be a worthwhile investment first.

Finally got my hand on Deus Ex:Human Revolution and I must say that that game is amazing.
PlanetSide2 for PC is also really fun. Huge maps and tons of players in one game.
I've also went back and started playing GTA3 again. What a classic.

Picked up off the shelf Godzilla: Unleashed (Wii) for the first time in a long time, testing some stuff. The animations look really good, it's too bad the controls are so insanely frustrating as I remember them. ):

Other than that, haven't really played much else. 100%'d Super Mario World (SNES), can't believe I was just missing some exits when I was little... Super Smash Bros. Melee (GCN) is a blast. Then watching one of my brothers ransack a shop in Skyrim.

Did what I could with GTA 4 and RDR. The 10 assist in RDR isn't going to happen without a willing friend (aka boosting). GTA 4 is either too dead in some cases and too filled with elites in others to get any more progress there outside the one trophy I got (because someone went afk).

Battlefield: Bad Company

God of War

God of War 2

God of War 3

Killzone 2

Need for Speed: Shift

Resonance of Fate

Star Ocean: The Last Hope - International

Wet

Implausible:

Prototype

DJ Hero 2

FEAR 3

Far Cry 2

GTA 4

Il-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey

Red Dead Redemption

LittleBigPlanet

Street Fighter 4

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

X-Men

Once I get Killzone 2 and Bad Company out of the way, that will be it for the multiplayer titles.

Still working on inFamous, but haven't played in a couple days now. When I couldn't get Chrono Trigger to work last weekend, I started up Luminous Arc 2 instead and have played that a decent amount the past week.

Did what I could with GTA 4 and RDR. The 10 assist in RDR isn't going to happen without a willing friend (aka boosting). GTA 4 is either too dead in some cases and too filled with elites in others to get any more progress there outside the one trophy I got (because someone went afk).

Battlefield: Bad Company

God of War

God of War 2

God of War 3

Killzone 2

Need for Speed: Shift

Resonance of Fate

Star Ocean: The Last Hope - International

Wet

Implausible:

Prototype

DJ Hero 2

FEAR 3

Far Cry 2

GTA 4

Il-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey

Red Dead Redemption

LittleBigPlanet

Street Fighter 4

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

X-Men

Once I get Killzone 2 and Bad Company out of the way, that will be it for the multiplayer titles.

Did what I could with GTA 4 and RDR. The 10 assist in RDR isn't going to happen without a willing friend (aka boosting). GTA 4 is either too dead in some cases and too filled with elites in others to get any more progress there outside the one trophy I got (because someone went afk).

Battlefield: Bad Company

God of War

God of War 2

God of War 3

Killzone 2

Need for Speed: Shift

Resonance of Fate

Star Ocean: The Last Hope - International

Wet

Implausible:

Prototype

DJ Hero 2

FEAR 3

Far Cry 2

GTA 4

Il-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey

Red Dead Redemption

LittleBigPlanet

Street Fighter 4

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

X-Men

Once I get Killzone 2 and Bad Company out of the way, that will be it for the multiplayer titles.

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I have RDR on PS3 but only played it once, any way I can help?

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Nah, thanks for the offer though. There's no way I'm going to platinum it even with the 10 assist trophy (you need to form an 8 person possy as well - Rockstar games have some of the worst designed trophy lists) so I'm not feeling particularly bad about not getting it. I just needed to reach the point where I was comfortable about crossing it off my list of things to do.

I would have felt bad about boosting the win trophies as well (the other thing I would have had to do for the platinum) so having the platinum would have felt hollow.